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Extreme climatology on Hot Jupiters. The study: “The GAPS Programme at TNG. LXIX.The Dayside of WASP-76b revealed by GIANO-B, HARPS-N and ESPRESSO: Evidence for Three-Dimensional Atmospheric Effects” of G. Guilluy (INAF – OATo) appeared on A&A

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Planetary climatology under extreme conditions thanks to GIANO-B, HARPS-N and ESPRESSO observations of the hot Jupiter WASP-76b   Among the 6007 confirmed exoplanets to date (09/22/2025), there exists a class of planets absent in the Solar System but crucial for studying atmospheric physics under extreme conditions: ultra-hot Jupiters. These are gas giants in very close orbits around their host stars,

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Shedding lights on the mechanism responsible for the formation of Hot Jupiters. The study: “Gas, not dust: Migration of TESS/Gaia hot Jupiters possibly halted by the magnetospheres of protoplanetary disks” of I. Mendigutia (CAB) appeared on A&A

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Hot Jupiters are gas giants that orbit at distances less than 0.1 AU from their host star. But what determines the final orbital radius of these planets? In intermediate-mass stars, it seems to be the dispersion of gas in their protoplanetary disks.   Hot Jupiters are a class of exoplanets that are not found in our Solar System. They are

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Two hot Jupiters with a water-rich atmosphere. The study: “The GAPS Programme at TNG LXVII. Detection of water and preliminary characterisation of the atmospheres of the two hot Jupiters KELT-8 b and KELT-23 Ab” of M. Basilicata (University of Tor Vergata) appeared su A&A)

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Observations carried out with the Telescopio Nazionale Galileo of two exoplanets belonging to the hot Jupiter class reveal an atmosphere rich in water, despite the high temperatures.   Water is an essential ingredient for life as we know it—not only because we drink it, but because it is an exceptional solvent for the chemical processes that underlie life on Earth.

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The chemical composition of the Hot Jupiter HD 209458b tells us about its history. The study: “Five carbon- and nitrogen-bearing species in a hot giant planet’s atmosphere” of P. Giacobbe (INAF – OATo) recently appeared on Nature

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The discovery of the first planet orbiting around another star occurred in the 1995, thanks to the astronomers Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz. This discovery set a milestone in astronomy both because it was the first observational confirmation of the existence of planets orbiting around other stars (in this case 51 Pegasi), and because of the nature of this exoplanet. It

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Chemical composition and elevation of the atmosphere of WASP-121b. The study: “Atmospheric Rossiter-McLaughlin effect and transmission spectroscopy of WASP-121b with ESPRESSO” of F. Borsa (INAF-OA Brera) recently appeared on A&A)

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Ultra-hot Jupiters are gaseous planets orbiting at close distances from their central stars, with rotation periods shorter than 3 days. Their atmospheres are thus heated, more than 2000 degrees, by the incident radiation emitted by the central star. For this reason, the atmospheres of ultra-hot Jupiters shows peculiar properties compared with planets of other types. For instance, they are affected

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An Hot Jupiter that may not be there. The study: “The GAPS Programme at TNG. XXVII. Reassessment of a young planetary system with HARPS-N: is the hot Jupiter V830 Tau b really there?” of M. Damasso (INAF-OATo) recently appeared on A&A

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Some of the exoplanets known so far belong to classes that do not exist in our Solar System. For instance,  the class of the Hot Jupiters, i.e., gaseous giant planets orbiting at close distances from their stars (typically less than 0.5 AU, Astronomical Unit, where a 1 AU is the average distance between Sun and Earth, about 150 million km).

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Hot Jupiters around young stars. The study: “The GAPS Programme at TNG. XXI. A GIARPS case study of known young planetary candidates: confirmation of HD 285507 b and refutation of AD Leonis b” of I. Carleo (Van Vleck Observatory/INAF-OA Padova) recently appeared on A&A

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The discovery of the first exoplanet in 1995 was a challenge to our knowledge of the architecture of planetary systems. The planet orbiting around the star 51 Peg, in fact, was different than the planets in our Solar System: it was a gaseous giant orbiting at only 0.05 Astronomical Units (A.U., where 1 A.U. is the average distance between Earth

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Evaporating planets. The study: “Photo-evaporation of close-in gas giants orbiting around G and M stars” of D. Locci (INAF-OAPA) recently appeared on A&A

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The stellar magnetic activity can produce an important emission of energetic X-ray and UV radiation. This emission is typically variable, both because the magnetic activity changes over short time scales, and because it decreases during stellar evolution. For instance, solar-type stars in the pre-main sequence phase (i.e. younger than 30 million years) are thousand times brighter in X-rays than main

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